Author: Emil Lazarian

INTEGRATION BUT NOT ASSIMILATION
By Tatoul Hakobian
AZG Armenian Daily #173
28/09/2005
Diaspora
NGOs of Javakhk Demand Wide Autonomy Within Georgia
On September 23-24, the Armenian NGOs of Samtskhe-Javakhk region held
their 3d assembly in Akhalkalak within the frameworks of “Integration
but not Assimilation” initiative. The assembly adopted a resolution at
the end of the meeting. In a phone conversation with Azg, head of Virq
Party, Davit Rstakian, informed that a number of active organizations
of Javakhk took part in the assembly (“Javakhk” movement, JEM, Akunq,
A-Info and Virq).
The resolution they passed says that “only federally united Georgia
can secure final stability in the region as well as territorial
wholeness of the country… Unbalance approach in the state structures
to national minorities can damage Georgia’s international authority
and the democratic tendencies in the country”.
The Armenian organizations of Javakhk outlined the necessary steps for
the Georgian government to take in regard to national minorities:
“Granting Armenian-populated Samtskhe-Javakhk and Kvemo-Kartli
regions the status of an autonomous subject within Federal Georgia
with wide autonomy including the right of holding free elections
for of all autonomous bodies; granting Armenian language the status
of official along with Georgian; appropriate subsidies from state
budget for preserving and developing the national identity, culture,
language and history of the nations living in Samtskhe-Javakhk”.
The Russian and Georgia mass media widely covered the meeting. While
Moscow stresses the demand of autonomy, Tbilisi labeled the organizers
of the assembly extremists and separatists. Davit Rstakian told Azg
that “we are the owners of this land” and “we organized this assembly”
to give truthful assessment to present problems.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Turkish academics break genocide taboo
Aljazeera
Features
Turkish academics break genocide taboo
By Jonathan Gorvett in Istanbul
Tuesday 27 September 2005, 15:21 Makka Time, 12:21 GMT
The recent conference in Istanbul on the controversial killing of Ottoman
Armenians in the closing stages of first world war has been widely lauded as
a breakthrough event which could strengthen accession talks with the
European Union.
“It was a major shift in the understanding here of the importance of freedom
of expression,” Ferai Tinc, a leading columnist with the Turkish daily
Hurriyet, told Aljazeera.net. “It showed a transformation in mentality.”
Others see it as a major step too on Turkey’s rocky road to European Union
membership, with talks on this due to start in just one week’s time.
The conference – held on 24 September amid cries of treachery from hardline
Turkish nationalists and resounding applause from academics, politicians and
pundits – was the first ever in Turkey to see an open discussion on the
events of 1915.
At the turn of the 20th century, Turkey’s predecessor, the Ottoman Empire,
was allied with Germany and Austria (part of the Austro-Hungarian empire)
against Britain, France and Russia.
Genocide debate
The Ottoman government, many historians say, then organised what amounted to
genocide of its ethnic Armenian population, which was considered pro-Russian
and disloyal.
But Turkish authorities have in the past 90 years denied this version of
events, saying that both Turks and Armenians were killed in chaotic
fighting.
While Ankara does concede that the Ottoman government ordered the
deportation of its ethnic Armenian population to the southeast of the
country, it insists this did not constitute genocide.
This controversy has led to heated and often violent disputes, with the
official Turkish line fiercely defended within the country, effectively
preventing public discussion of alternative points of view.
Yet this month, academics met to do just that – and were pelted with eggs
and tomatoes by hardline Turkish nationalists, who accused the professors of
betraying the country.
The conference had already been cancelled in May after the country’s justice
minister described it as a “stab in the back” by Turkish academics who were
willing to consider claims of a genocide.
Reset for September 23, at the last minute, hardline Turkish nationalists
obtained a court injunction preventing the event from being held at its
original venue.
Yet this ban was successfully got round by another Istanbul university
offering its premises – a move also seen by many as deeply significant.
Important step
“This was Turkey’s academic community asserting its independence,” says
Razmik Panossian, a leading Armenian academic and director of programmes at
the Canadian Rights and Democracy pressure group.
“They were saying ‘We’ll go ahead with this even if people are against us’.
This was a very important step to take.”
For many then, both in Turkey and elsewhere, the significance of the
weekend’s conference, which saw mainly Turkish scholars debate the record,
was not 1915, but 2005.
“The conference was not just about the Armenian issue,” says Ekyen
Mahcupyan, the ethnic Armenian director of Turkish think-tank TESEV’s
democratisation programme. “It was about Turkey showing itself and the world
that it can discuss issues like who we are and what kind of world we want to
live in.”
The conference was also taking place at a crucial time in Turkey’s bid to
become a member of the European Union.
On 3 October, accession negotiations are scheduled to begin, with Brussels
pushing Turkey to further democratise – and taking a dim view of the
controversy over the conference.
Support received
Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan and his foreign minister,
Abdullah Gul, both gave their support for the event and reacted strongly
against the court order cancelling it.
“It is obvious that Europe will be influenced in a positive way by how
things turned out,” adds Mahcupyan. “As soon as the court halted the
conference, everyone reacted – many people came forward to condemn the court
and support the event and free speech.”
The message here, many Turks believe, is that the recent democratic reforms
the current government has introduced are taking hold.
“After the reforms were introduced, there was a lot of questioning in the EU
over whether they would be implemented,” says Tinc.
“Now, the ability to hold this conference shows how the mentality has
changed, enabling the implementation of reform.”
The issue also has wider strategic implications for Turkey’s EU accession
bid. Turkey borders Armenia, yet the frontier remains closed, with no
diplomatic relations between the two.
Frozen relations
The claims over genocide are a key factor in these frozen relations –
although there is one other major issue at stake.
“Relations are being held hostage by the Nagorno Kharabakh conflict,” says
Panossian. Since war between Armenia and Turkish ally Azerbaijan resulted in
the occupation of some Azeri territory by the Armenians, Turkey has shut off
its links with its Armenian neighbour.
“Yet, from the moment the EU accession talks start, the Armenian issue will
keep coming up,” says international relations professor Gareth Winrow of
Istanbul’s Bilgi University – where the conference was eventually held.
“All EU states must have good relations with their neighbours and Turkey
must therefore find a formula for normalising its relations with Armenia.
Perhaps the hope of some Turks in the conference was to begin that process.”
That being said, the conference’s reception has not been entirely popular in
Turkey. Some see the Europeans in particular not as pushing democratic
reform along, but as trying to use the issue against Turkey.
Pressuring Turkey
“People in France and Germany and some other countries encourage the
Armenians to attack Turkey,” says Sedat Laciner , director of the
International Strategic Research Organisation in Ankara.
“They can’t find any other reason to keep Turkey out of the EU so they use
this. Western countries always used the Armenians – in World War I they did
the same thing, encouraging them to rise up against the Ottomans.”
It is a view not too dissimilar from Panossian’s. “European capitals will
use Armenia to put pressure on Ankara,” he says.
“This has been a convenient way for them to set up hurdles for Turkey ever
since the 19th century.”
Meanwhile, ordinary Turks seem largely divided on the issue.
“I don’t think it should have been allowed,” says shop worker Mert Aslan.
“There was no such genocide – it was the Turks who suffered. Nobody ever
talks about that, and to think that Turkish professors are supporting the
Armenians is a shame for us.”
By contrast, student Dicile Atacam said: “I think it’s a very good thing.
If we can’t talk freely about the past, then how can we ever understand each
other today, in the present?”

It’s Azerbaijan’s turn
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2005
By Farhad Husseinov
ANKARA — As the threat from terrorism becomes ever more acute, the
West is caught in a strategic dilemma between stability and
democratization in the Muslim world. While the pursuit of stability
has been mostly abandoned in the Middle East, it remains operative in
the Muslim countries of the former Soviet empire – as displayed until
recent times in the West’s cooperation with autocrats like
Uzbekistan’s Islam Karimov.
Azerbaijan is the latest victim of this sacrifice of freedom in the
pursuit of stability. A country of 8.5 million people – roughly half
of whom live in poverty – on the Western shores of the energy-rich
Caspian Sea, it is preparing for parliamentary elections in early
November. Baku, the capital, is the next obvious candidate for a
democratic revolution of the kind witnessed in Georgia and Ukraine. At
stake are the multibillion-dollar investments of oil giants like BP
and Chevron.
The incumbent president, Ilham Aliyev, is a Soviet-educated autocrat
who inherited power from his late father, Geidar Aliyev, in late 2003
as a result of rigged elections followed by a ruthless police
crackdown. Opposition activists were imprisoned and tortured. Yet the
creation of the first dynastic regime in the post-Soviet space was,
incongruously, blessed by the administrationof George W. Bush.
So far, Aliyev junior has proved less adept than his ex-Communist
father at playing political cat-and-mouse with Western capitals. His
regular consultations with President Vladimir Putin of Russia have not
escaped analysts’ attention. One development that apparently
infuriated Washington was the security arrangement he made with Iran
in May. This was followed by news that Azerbaijan had been used as a
conduit for supplying Russian nuclear technology to Iran.
Now that the campaign for the November elections has officially
started, efforts by the regime to steal votes are once again under
way. The main issue is the formation of election commissions dominated
by the government. The U.S. Congress and the Council of Europe demand
that these be amended to create a balance between representatives of
the government and the opposition.
Cases of harassment by the regional authorities on behalf of regime
favorites are abundant. The media – with a few embattled exceptions in
print and on the Internet – is entirely under state control. The
latest trend on Azeri TV channels is to describe opposition leaders as
either homosexual or agents of Al Qaeda. Criticism of the president
is characterized as betrayal of the motherland.
Another sign of the regime’s contempt for fair elections is the recent
reshuffling of posts within the power ministries. Hard-liners
responsible for organizing the crackdown in 2003 were rewarded with
promotions and even state medals. In this way, the government has
perpetuated a climate of arbitrariness and arrogant lawlessness.
Despite the campaign to denigrate and destroy real political
opposition, it now poses a serious challenge to the regime. Indeed,
many in Baku predict the downfall of a bankrupt government built on
corruption, nepotism, coercion and a record of political murder.
The greatest hope is invested in the newly forged Freedom Bloc, with
the pro-Western Musavat Party as its driving force, which succeeded in
holding a series of rallies across the country that the government was
compelled to allow because of domestic and international pressure. The
last such demonstration was organized in Baku on Sept. 10 and drew
about 50,000 people, many of them wearing orange shirts and waving
orange flags in an echo of the pro-democracy rallies in Ukraine last
year.
In today’s globalized world, democracy requires support from
without. The Bush administration’s “freedom agenda” is a praiseworthy
step in this regard. It should, however, also be extended to illiberal
countries that possess oil or host a NATO military base. Democratic
turnover in the post-Soviet states is not Western imperialism by
another name, as some would like us to believe. What they represent,
rather, is a shift toward the rule of law, democracy and national
reconciliation.
Azerbaijan presents the next opportunity for Western leaders to prove
their commitment to the founding principles of their own
nation-states. With time, this moral choice will prove to be a smart
strategic choice as well.
As for Putin, instead of bemoaning his country’s imperial past, he
should be the first to desire the creation of a progressive and
liberal space around it, as this would benefit no state more than
Russia itself.
Farhad Husseinov is professor of economics at Bilkent
University in Ankara and a pro-democracy activist in Azerbaijan.

FAREWELL TO AMBASSADOR
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Today Robert Kocharyan had a farewell meeting with the Greek Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Antonios Vlavianos who
is finishing his diplomatic mission in Armenia.
The sides agreed that Robert Kocharyan’s upcoming official visit to
Greece will become a new impetus for the continuation of political
dialogue between the two countries and the economic cooperation.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

SYSTEM OF A DOWN TURNS POLITICAL FOR HOUSE BILL
By Lisa Friedman, Washington Bureau
Los Angeles Daily News
Sept 27 2005
WASHINGTON – A San Fernando Valley-based rock band plans to rally
today in front of House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s Illinois office
in the hope of pressuring Congress to pass a politically sensitive
resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide.
Serj Tankian, lead singer of System of a Down, said he and fellow
band members – all of Armenian descent – hope to “get attention for
the cause” and encourage Hastert to bring the bill to House vote.
The resolution sponsored by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, would
have Congress formally declare that the Ottoman Empire engaged in
genocide against 1.5 million Armenians after World War I. The House
International Relations Committee passed it 35-11.
The State Department opposes the resolution, arguing that its passage
would undermine U.S. relations with Turkey, which continues to deny
that a genocide took place.
Hastert and other GOP leaders have vowed to prevent a full House vote.
Hastert officials referred questions on the genocide bill to Majority
Leader Tom DeLay. A DeLay spokesman said the resolution is not
scheduled for a vote because Gulf Coast hurricane legislation is
Congress’ top priority.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

POLITICAL ANALYSIS: SURVEY OF ANALYSTS ON ARMENIAN ISSUES
By M. Alkhazashvili
The Messenger, Georgia
Sept 27 2005
The non-profit group Armenian Assembly of America recently conducted
a survey in which 24 American and Western European experts, former
statesmen and analysts took part. An analysis of the survey shows
that in the opinion of these specialists, the situation in the frozen
Azeri-Armenian conflict may undergo a tidal shift to the benefit of
Azerbaijan in the coming years.
Since 2004, the Armenian Assembly’s Office of Research & Information
has conducted an annual survey in an effort to gauge analysts’
opinions of how Armenian issues are perceived in the United States
and Western Europe.According to the paper AZG Armenian Daily, the
survey was conducted by Tim Manook at St. Andrews University, UK,
and supervised by Emil Sanamyan at the Armenian Assembly.
When asked “which state of the near east would have positive or
negative influence on Armenia?” the answers were, as reported by
Akhali Taoba: 45 percent Azerbaijan, 16 percent Turkey, 11 percent
Russia and 9 percent Georgia.
Forty two percent of those questioned stated that if war takes place
in the next decade Armenia would win, though 29 percent stated that
conflict would result in a stalemate. The remainder did not answer.
But the situation changes after 2015. Thirty-three percent of
respondents believe that Azerbaijan will gain a military victory
over Armenia if war breaks at that time and only four percent predict
victory for Armenia in such a case.
As for the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, 62 percent of specialists
polled think that a change in the status quo of the region is not to
be expected in the near future.
Analysts pessimistically evaluate the prospects of U.S. relations
with Russia and Iran. At the same time they expect that U.S.
influence in the Caucasus region will increase.
As for Turkey’s integration into the European Union, the respondents
stated that this is unlikely to happen before 2020-2025 because,
according to their prognosis, Ankara will not recognize the Ottoman
Turks’ massacre of Armenians and will seek to deepen its relations
with Washington instead.
However, some of the analysts predicted that the U.S. itself would
recognize the Armenian genocide within the next five years. A
significant step toward such a recognition occurred on September
15, when the U.S. House of Representatives’ International Relations
committee approved a resolution to recognize the events as genocide by
a vote of 40-7. The government of Turkey has maintained that the events
in question were not caused by a state intention to eliminate Armenians
and that fewer people were killed then claimed by the Armenian side.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

KENTRON COMMUNITY HEAD NOT CHANGED
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According to the Local Electoral Committee head Eghish Terteryan,
Gagik Beglaryan has been re-elected as head of the Kentron Community
with an advantage of votes about 32 thousand against 4 thousand.
According to the head of the Local Electoral Committee, the absence of
clear-cut data is accounted for by the fact that the computer failed
right when the final results were almost ready.
Worker of the CEC Tsovinar Khachatryan informed that the preliminary
results will be ready today at 02:00 p.m.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

COURT COMING IN ACTION
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“If the court decides that the 129 ballots voted for Arayik Qotanjyan
which were considered invalid are valid, he will be elected head of
the Qanaqer-Zeytun community without second elections”, this is the
opinion of the NA independent deputy Manouk Gasparyan who supports
the candidate. He also informed that an action has been brought to
the Court of Appeal.
Let us remind you that the Local Electoral Committee had announced
the results of the September 19 election in Qanaqer-Zeytun and fixed
new elections.
After the reports of the LEC the ballot packs were torn and according
to the NA deputy 54 ballots from one area and 75 from the other were
“spoilt by hand” and considered invalid. The action by Arayik Qotanjyan
is about the “fate” is these ballots.
Manouk Gasparyan thinks that tomorrow the Court will send an order
to the LEC not to organize elections until the court makes a decision.
It is noteworthy that Arayik Qotanjyan was not recognized community
head as the number of errors exceeded that of the difference
between the votes received by Mr. Qotanjyan and his opponent Valeri
Haroutyunyan.

UNE CONFERENCE SUR LE GENOCIDE ARMENIEN PROVOQUE UNE NOUVELLE BOUFFEE NATIONALISTE
par Marie-Michèle Martinet
Le Figaro, France
24 septembre 2005
TURQUIE A quelques jours de l’ouverture des negociations d’adhesion a
l’Union europeenne
Le genocide armenien reste decidement un sujet tabou en Turquie. Pour
la deuxième fois en moins de six mois, une conference organisee
sur ce thème par deux prestigieuses universites stambouliotes,
a ete suspendue… avant d’etre finalement reprogrammee, in
extremis, dans une troisième universite de la ville. Cette nouvelle
bouffee nationaliste, qui intervient a la veille de l’ouverture des
negociations d’adhesion europeenne de la Turquie prevue le 3 octobre,
suscite certaines interrogations sur la capacite d’Ankara a s’engager
dans un veritable processus democratique.
A l’occasion du 90 e anniversaire du genocide armenien celebre en avril
dernier, les universitaires turcs avaient cru possible d’ouvrir enfin
le debat, en Turquie, plutôt que de continuer a balayer les miettes
de l’histoire sous le tapis de la mauvaise conscience. L’idee etait
simple : inviter une soixantaine d’intellectuels critiques a exposer
leur analyse sur les massacres de 1915, dont Ankara se refuse toujours
a admettre le caractère genocidaire.
Programmee pour le 25 mai, la conference fut suspendue a la dernière
minute, sous l’impulsion du ministre de la Justice, Cemil Cicek,
qui declarait alors qu’un tel debat ne pouvait avoir lieu car il
constituait une offense a la nation, un ” coup de poignard dans
le dos du peuple turc “. Quelques mois plus tard, le meme scenario
vient de se reproduire : a la suite d’une plainte deposee par des
juristes, le tribunal administratif d’Istanbul annoncait jeudi soir
la suspension de cette conference, dont l’ouverture etait prevue pour
le lendemain matin.
Hier soir, nouveau rebondissement : a la suite de vives protestations,
tant de l’Union europeenne qu’au plus haut niveau du pouvoir
gouvernemental turc, la conference etait finalement maintenue :
les debats s’ouvriront donc ce matin, a l’heure dite, mais dans une
autre universite, celle de Bilgi qui n’est pas concernee par l’ordre
de suspension.
L’honneur est donc sauf. Il n’empeche que ces blocages a repetition,
dignes d’un mauvais theâtre de boulevard, qui interviennent a la
veille de l’ouverture des negociations europeennes de la Turquie,
prevue pour le 3 octobre, reactivent certaines interrogations sur
la capacite d’Ankara a engager un veritable processus democratique
dans le pays : ” Nous regrettons vivement cette nouvelle tentative
d’empecher la societe turque d’avoir un debat sur son histoire “,
declarait hier Krisztina Nagy.
La porte-parole du commissaire europeen a l’Elargissement, Olli Rehn,
qualifie la decision des juges turcs de ” nouvelle provocation ”
illustrant les ” difficultes de la Turquie, et en particulier de son
système judiciaire, a assurer une application reelle et constante
des reformes “.
On peut s’interroger sur les intentions reelles de ceux qui, en
s’efforcant de jouer le blocage a quelques jours de la date cruciale
du 3 octobre, compliquent indiscutablement la tâche des diplomates
turcs, deja embarrasses par la delicate question de la reconnaissance
de Chypre. Veulent-ils purement et simplement saboter le dialogue
difficilement engage entre la Turquie et l’Europe ? Le premier ministre
turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dont l’avenir politique reste très lie au
succès des negociations, avait sevèrement condamne, dès jeudi soir,
la decision des juges : ” La cour a jete une ombre sur le processus de
democratisation et sur les libertes dans mon pays “, a-t-il declare,
en s’interrogeant au passage sur les competences du tribunal.
En decembre prochain, le romancier turc, Orhan Pamuk, dont les livres
sont publies en France par Gallimard, sera juge pour avoir affirme,
dans un journal suisse, qu’ ” un million d’Armeniens et trente mille
Kurdes ont ete tues en Turquie “. Ces propos, consideres comme une
insulte a l’identite turque, peuvent lui valoir une peine de six a
neuf mois de prison, conformement au nouveau Code penal.
Le Parlement europeen a deja fait savoir qu’il designerait des
observateurs pour s’assurer du bon deroulement de ce procès, ce
qui exaspère de nombreux Turcs qui voient, dans cette demarche, une
volonte d’ingerence de l’Europe : ” Arretez de faire de Orhan Pamuk un
faux heros ! “, s’insurge Bedri Baykam, qui dirige le très kemaliste
Mouvement patriotique, proche du principal parti d’opposition, CHP.
Soucieux des consequences de cette nouvelle crise armenienne ravivant
les crispations nationalistes dans le pays, Hrant Dink, le redacteur
en chef du journal bilingue Agos, publie en turc et en armenien,
s’est efforce de calmer le jeu, en appelant ses interlocuteurs au
calme et a la reflexion. Jusqu’a present, la communaute armenienne
de Turquie s’est declaree favorable a l’adhesion a l’Europe, sachant
qu’un tel ancrage serait la meilleure protection pour l’avenir des
minorites dans le pays.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PRESS RELEASE
ARPA Institute
18106 Miranda St.
Tarzana, CA 91356 &
Mousa Ler Association of California
Tel: (818) 596-9660
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:

ARPA Institute and Mousa Ler Association present the Lecture: “Musa
Dagh Genocide Resistance in Light of New Evidence”(In Armenian) by
Vahram Shemmassian, Ph.D. on Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 7:30 PM
in the Merdinian school auditorium.

The Address is 13330 Riverside Dr., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.
Directions: on the 101 FWY exit on Woodman, go north and turn right on
Riverside Dr.
Abstract: `Musa Dagh’ is a household name among Armenians and `rings a
bell’ among other people. In July 1915, during the early phase of the
Genocide, about 6,000 Armenian highlanders living near the biblical
town Antioch were given deportation orders by the Ottoman
government. About one-third heeded the order and was exiled to the
Syrian town of Hama, but the majority decided to take arms and resist.
No published study exists regarding the fate of those who were
dispatched to Hama. Memoirs published in recent years and archival
materials not used before will be cited to shed new light on certain
aspects of the resistance. A replica of the cross and pictures will
also be presented.

Professor Vahram Shemmassian, professor of Armenian Studies in the
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the
California State University, Northridge, holds a Ph.D. in History from
UCLA. His doctoral dissertation, entitled `The Armenian Villagers of
Musa Dagh: A Historical-Ethnographic Study, 1840-1915,’ is currently
being revised for publication. Dr. Shemmassian has taught Armenian
History, Armenian Language, Sociology, and Western Civilization at the
National University, Fresno, CA; Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA;
and Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, CA. In 1989-1990, he was
the Chair of the Armenology Department at the now-defunct American
Armenian International College, La Verne, CA. As such, in addition to
teaching Armenian subjects, he organized a one-day symposium on
`Armenian-Genocide Issues, 1915-1990.’
He has conducted extensive research in some thirty governmental and
non-governmental archival repositories in the United States, Europe,
and the Middle East, gathering data on such areas of interest as the
Armenians of Musa Dagh and northwestern Syria in general, as well as
Armenian Genocide survivors in the Middle East at the end of World War
I. He has published several scholarly articles, delivered lectures at
community events and in universities, and participated in symposia and
conferences.
Dr. Shemmassian’s experience is not limited to higher education and
scholarship, for he has served in the capacity of principal of three
Armenian day schools in the greater Los Angeles area, namely, Chamlian
School, A.G. Minassian School, and Merdinian School.
For Information Please call Dr. Hagop Panossian at(818)586-9660